It also sees people favour tailored experiences over real ones, particularly in the latest episode (spoilers in that link), something we’ve definitely started to do in the real world already.
For me, at least, one of the beauties of writing in genre is the ability to escape from the world a little bit.
He still sees it as escapist, but can definitely see the parallels.
“Has everybody basically created their own echo chamber composed of people who are like-minded?”